Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his boy's pen Master Bruno dashed off a short story, "The Vessel of the Dead." Hair raising, it resembles (except for lack of sex motive) Il Duce's own lurid serial The Cardinal's Mistress,* penned while he was helping to edit a Socialist sheet...
...Shanghai, China, big Sister Edda, Countess Ciano, is the wife of the Italian Consul General. In Milan, doughty Uncle Arnaldo Mussolini edits the family paper, Il Popolo d'ltalia. Also in Milan, little Sister Anna Maria teethes...
Last week, just as the fuss over Major General Smedley Darlington Butler's "Mussolini Speech" had nearly died away. up popped Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr. in Los Angeles. Mr. Vanderbilt stated that it was he who had supplied the rambunctious General with the anecdote of Il Duce's alleged hit & run motor drive, for relating which the General was reprimanded by the Navy Department (TIME, Feb. 9; 16). But the imaginative young publicist was very wroth because General Butler "took a story of mine, twisted it around to score a point for himself, and made me the goat...
...twisted" by the General, the child was killed, and Il Duce's comment was:"What is one life in the affairs of a state?" The point of the two versions seemed much the same and, in any case, General Butler's lawyer could not recall that he had ever mentioned the Vanderbilt name in connection with the story. But the onetime tabloid publisher spoke of suing General Butler, hinted darkly of the revelations he might make...
...League of Nations circles, where such things are watched closely, Il Duce was promptly hailed last week as a great innovator: the first statesman to go over the heads of a foreign government and press, talking Peace directly to a hostile foreign people...